So Much for Being The Keystone State

So Much for Being The Keystone State

By Judi Panasik
The Weekly Recorder
March 21, 2008

In the great state of Pennsylvania we have over two months before our Primary elections. By that time the candidates for both parties will more than likely have been chosen, and our votes will be irrelevant. As a democrat I really don’t have much of a selection anyway since John Edwards pulled out of the race. Now I am forced to say something I never thought I would say, I want to see Hillary get the nomination.

As a feminist my friends are always in shock that I am not a Hillary supporter. Like all politicians I don’t trust her and the way she got to be in this position. But unlike Obama, at least she has the background to be there.

If I had to pick a female to run for president, other than myself, I would back Christine Todd Whitman. She was the Governor of New Jersey, and served on President Bush’s cabinet. She did resign and wrote a book shortly there after. But this is a woman who didn’t ride her husband’s coattails and didn’t suck up to the powers that be. But nobody ever knows who she is, which is never good in politics.

But back to the unfortunate race at hand. We have Hillary, whose campaign has been sabotaged by the media, and Obama, who has no background to run for President. It pains me to say it but Bush had more qualifications behind him, he just doesn’t speak as pretty as Obama.

With only two years in as a senator, one of which he has campaigned for president, what has he done? This is who we want running a country that is economically unstable and in the middle of a losing battle in Iraq? What’s he going to do shake the magic 8 ball?

As my friend says he doesn’t say anything he just keeps talking. So the male equivalent to me. His campaign and the media has managed to make Hillary and Bill look like racist, while at the same time saying this is not an election based on race. Why then is that all they are talking about. How many white voters or African American voters there are coming out for Obama, that’s all you hear on the news.

Folks the world is not color blind, they may be stupid, but colors they can still see. This was going to be the election that possibly put the first female in the White House. Now it’s coming down to a man that may not be qualified to do my taxes with a questionable past in business dealings and no foreign policy experience. As much as I don’t trust Hillary at least she has that.

But whom do we really have to thank for this? Oprah! To quote my friend again, whatever Oprah touches turns to gold for her but crap for everybody else. Our brilliant citizens are taking the advice of a talk show host. Yeah us. I can’t stand to watch Oprah for 2 minutes let alone take her advice. She and the rest of the Hollywood group backing Obama have no real concept of what is going on in this country or the world. They live in a surreal world and see Obama as a great story in the middle of it.

And the Kennedy’s, the wonderful Kennedy’s, who questionable ethics and morals made them the royalty of America. Why would I want to back someone that Ted Kennedy indorsed? How easily we forget all of the questionable deaths surrounding the Kennedy’s. And they are comparing Obama to JFK. That just proves my point. I’m going to get a lot of slack but what did JFK ever do besides have affairs and a dramatic death. Had JFK lived he and Bush may have been sharing a page in history as the least accomplished presidents.

But once again it all goes back to the media. The media made JFK a star. The media has made the Kennedy’s who they are publicly. And now the media is creating a fake image around a man they want to see become president.

Inaccurate reporting and false bravado may put a man in office that has less right to be there than Bush. That was something else I never thought I would hear myself say.

It has come to the point where I will not watch the news, and have to avoid all conversations on the subject. When I see how easily people are being manipulated and really have no idea what they are doing, I lose hope in mankind and realize that we are about two generations away from turning back into monkeys.

But until the fall those of us in Pennsylvania really don’t have a say. There will more than likely be one Democrat and one Republican to chose from. Maybe if we’re lucky a dynamic Independent will come out of no where and win the election in the fall.

Maybe we should change the statue of liberty to read “Give me you tired, your poor, but not your stupid masses.”